The article considers the peculiarities of the functioning of the agricultural sector during the war and highlights the main risks due to the full-scale war of the Russian Federation in February 2022. These include: general economic, significant logistical and financial losses of some agricultural producers, deterioration of the provision of agricultural enterprises with material and technical means, local food shortages caused by difficulties in supply and/or excessive demand, destruction of infrastructure for production, processing and storage of agricultural products. nutrition, deterioration of the quality of the diet of the population, reduction of production of certain types of agricultural products, transition to an extensive model of agricultural production, increasing the shortage of labor resources in agricultural production. Due to the impossibility of forecasting the course of hostilities in the future, the following vulnerable phenomena for the agricultural sector have been identified: blocking the export of agricultural products by sea, harvesting crops, providing agricultural enterprises with material and technical resources, providing food to the population in occupation and on the border. The main directions of ensuring the stability and adaptability of the agricultural sector to operate in wartime, in particular: maximum use of direct and indirect financial measures aimed at supporting the economic activities of farmers, keeping their employees, preventing bankruptcy, ensuring crop harvesting, ensuring sustainability of food systems of communities, change in the structure of agricultural production, the gradual restoration of technical capabilities for the export of agricultural products and food, the development of a strategy for the development of the agricultural sector.

The article considers the current state of the institutional field of modern state agrarian policy, which consists of a number of legislative acts regulating: the area in which business activities of economic entities of the agrarian sector, features, mechanisms and measures of state support of the agrarian sector, measures to protect natural resources used in agriculture. The main problems that hinder the further development of the agrarian sector are highlighted: deformed structure of agricultural production in favor of export-oriented crop products, lack of program document on agrarian sector development, low efficiency of state support of the agrarian sector, lack of strategic vision and concrete actions to overcome the livestock crisis, access of agricultural producers to bank loans, inefficient use of the potential of Ukrainian lands, environmental problems of agricultural land use, insufficient development of agricultural market infrastructure. Currently, the agrarian sector makes a significant contribution to the country's GDP, the inflow of foreign currency from foreign trade operations provides the domestic market with a wide range of food products at a very acceptable level. However, the current model of functioning of the agrarian sector is inefficient. The lack of effective mechanisms to support small producers leads to a decrease in their competitiveness, reduced production of agricultural products and increasing demand for their imports, deteriorating food security, rising unemployment among the rural population and migration of labor to large cities and abroad. Due to the non-inclusive development of the agrarian sector, Ukraine is losing a significant share of the positive potential of favorable trends in world food markets. The main directions of further reforming of the agrarian sector of Ukraine and ensuring food security of the state, in particular: stimulating investment processes in the agrarian sector of Ukraine, introduction of modern technologies in agricultural production, development of agricultural market infrastructure, development of small agricultural production, development of agricultural cooperatives, rural development.